Thursday, July 24, 2014

Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen Bring DESCENDER to IMAGE COMICS in 2015

Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Trillium,
Animal Man) and Dustin Nguyen (Batman, Little Gotham, American
Vampire) team up to bring a brand new monthly science fiction series to
Image Comics in March 2015 about one young robot’s struggle to stay alive in a
universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every
planet.

Ten years ago massive, planet-sized robots
called “The Harvesters” materialized without warning and invaded the orbits of
all the United Galactic Council’s worlds wiping out entire planets and
civilizations before disappearing again. In a fear-fueled response to this machine
holocaust, the galaxy blamed millions of robotic companions, whom they
suspected of somehow spawning The Harvesters. All robots and androids were
immediately outlawed and ruthless bounty hunters called Scrappers were charged
with scouring the universe for any surviving robots.

The incredibly life-like artificial boy, TIM-21
may hold the secrets to the origin of The Harvesters deep in his machine
DNA—and as a result is the most-wanted robot in the universe. With only
his small pet-bot, Bandit and the lumbering mining droid, Driller at his side,
TIM-21 goes on the run. Before long the entire galaxy is looking for this
rag-tag group of unlikely companions, as they make their way from one exotic
planet to the next with new foes advancing on them at every turn.

“I’m incredibly excited to bring DESCENDER to
IMAGE COMICS with Dustin Nguyen. Descender is a huge sprawling sci-fi epic,
full of mystery and adventure, but at its heart it’s also the story of a little
boy looking for a home in a universe that hates and fears him.”

A rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey, DESCENDER
will pit humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a
sprawling space opera from Image Comics this March 2015.